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Enric Pallé
Profesor investigador en el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)
In my view, this discovery is a brilliant find. The paper is very sound and certainly deserves a press release, but I’m not sure that the term ‘moon’ applies here. The authors acknowledge this, but they continue to use it (sic).
By definition, given the mass they’ve determined (almost as much as Jupiter’s) and the likely formation mechanism, what they’ve found is a run-of-the-mill planet orbiting the lowest-mass star discovered to date, but not a moon.
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